The main aim of the study was to explore the relationship between passion, grit and mindset in a group of football players in Norway. The sample had 63 participants. In three different groups in relation to age and level. Sogndal elite team (N = 25) ...

In this paper we review a special pension scheme established by the Govern- ment of Iceland for elderly workers that foreseeably would not enjoy any sig- nificant pension benefits from the pension system founded on the basis of the general labour ...

Transport properties of a quantum dot coupled to a photon cavity are investigated using a quantum master equation in the steady-state regime. In the off-resonance regime, when the photon energy is smaller than the energy spacing between the lowest ...

In the authors' previous analysis of the calling paradigms call-by-name and call-by-value through Girard's and Gödel's embeddings into the S4 modal logic, an asymmetry remains: the two paradigms are unified by the call-by-box paradigm of the modal ...

Summary: popSTR2 is an update and augmentation of our previous work ‘popSTR: a population-based microsatellite genotyper’. To make genotyping sensitive to inter-sample differences, we supply a kernel to estimate sample-specific slippage rates. For ...

El uso de sustancias por los adolescentes (i.e. el consumo de alcohol, tabaco, y otras drogas), persiste como un problema global, y se mantiene como un desafio para nuestras sociedades y autoridades de salud publica. Como respuesta a las altas tasas ...

Objectives: Problem gamblers in treatment are known to be at high risk for suicidality, but few studies have examined if this is evident in community samples. Evidence is mixed on the extent to which an association between problem gambling and suicidality ...

Previous studies have shown faster tapping speed and better tapping symmetry in drummers, compared with nondrummers. The present study investigated the effect on tapping frequency of mechanically constraining the joints of the arm on unimanual and ...

Background The Central Appalachian region of the United States is in the midst of a hepatitis C virus epidemic driven by injection of opioids, particularly heroin, with contaminated syringes. In response to this epidemic, several needle exchange ...

Whereas aerobic training has found to be beneficial for inhibitory control, less is known on the efficiency of other exercise types in children. The present study compared the effects of aerobic and coordinative training on behavioral and neurophysiological ...